人教新课标必修4 Unit 3 A taste of English humour[教案(4)

S3: It’s Charlie Chaplin. And I know picture one is from a film called The Gold Rush.

T: Right. Who know the man in picture 3?

S4: I dare say that everyone know him. He’s Mr. Bean, one of the most famous and successful British actor.

T: You are right. He s now recognized as the most popular British comedy expert. And how about the last one?

S5: It’s difficult to say. I guess he’s an American because the picture behind him looks like an

American flag.

T: Right. He is Mark Twain, the famous American writer. Do you know something about him? S6: He liked to make jokes with other people.

T: Have you once read some?

S6: Only a few.

T: Can you bring us some next time?

S6: Let me try.

T: OK, now, let s look at the chart on Page 17. What does it tell us?

S7: From the table we can see that Charlie Chaplin is good at nonverbal humour; Mr. Bean is

famous for his mime and farce; while Mark Twain was good at tell some funny stories. But I don’t know Edward Lear.

T: Right. Edward Lear is a famous British poet. His poems are funny. But they were all from daily life. Until now people also read them and enjoy them. Here is one of his short poems. Please look at the screen:

T: In these two poems we can see that Edward Lear used a kind of magnification to make his poem funny. But because the sense of humour of English and Chinese is different, sometimes what they feel funny would not sound funny to us. But if you want to make fun of one of your friends, you can send them to him/her. They will be surprise to see these. Well, do you know these persons in the pictures? What are they good at? Nonverbal, mime and farce, funny stories or funny poems?

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S8: Picture 1 is Chen Peisi. I think he is famous for his mime and farce.